A Glimpse at Harrowing Truth
The Real Women in Black: Serbian women seek the truth about their children, brothers, sisters and husbands missing in Kosovo province
What Happened to Kosovo Serbs Kidnapped by KLA?
Over 1,300 Kosovo Serbs, in addition to those for whom we know they have been killed and whose remains were handed over to their families by the UNMIK during the past 8 years, are still listed as missing. In some cases the entire families were kidnapped by the KLA/UCK at some point during the 1998-1999 war and after UN/NATO took over the administration and security of the southern Serbian province. These people were taken away in an unknown direction and, for all we know, disappeared from the face of the earth.
Over the years, we have learned that a number of kidnapped Kosovo Serb girls and women have been used as sex slaves, kept under the lock and key in the dark, moldy cellars of Albanian bar and brothel owners, underfed, repeatedly raped and beaten, until they are deemed no longer useful and killed like dogs.
There were also reports in the Serbian media about Kosovo Serb boys and men being forced to work in unsecured, illegal private mines, but with uncooperative UNMIK and indifferent KFOR (NATO) no investigation was ever initiated, and Serbian families of the Kosovo-Metohia missing are still without answers.
A Bloodcurdling Revelation in Del Ponte's Book
Now, however, the much discussed Carla del Ponte's book "The Hunt" offers a harrowing detail, revealing why have Serbian men been kidnapped throughout Kosovo province during past years instead of being killed on the spot, as is the usual KLA treatment for all non-Albanians, especially those of Serbian ethnicity: because they were used as a livestock for organ harvesting in the illegal trade with human organ transplants.
According to Glas Javnosti, writing about one of the failed investigations regarding the fate of around 300 abducted Kosovo Serbs who were taken to northern Albania, Del Ponte says that the kidnapped young men were not beaten and were well fed. There was an improvised surgery room in one of the houses, where young Serbs had their internal organs removed to be shipped over the Tirana airport "Mother Teresa" abroad, where the organs of the healthy young Serbs were sold.
Families of kidnapped Kosovo Serbs have brought photos to remind of their missing loved ones at the big rally in Serbian capital on February 21, 2008
The victims who had only one kidney removed during the first carve-up were sutured and returned to imprisonment, to live until they would get killed for their other vital organs, when the right buyer is found. According to Carla del Ponte, the Serbs held in this monstrous human stable Josef Mengele would envy, begged to be killed.
Lawless Land Ruled by the Cruel Thugs
Sworn Serbian enemy, Del Ponte describes Kosovo-Metohia province under the KLA/NATO rule as a land with no laws and institutions, the land of blood feuds, ruled by the thugs who present themselves as heroes of the "suffering Albanian people". She claims that UNMIK and KFOR officials, and even some ICTY judges in the Hague are fearful for their lives if connected to the KLA/UCK crime investigations, and feel threatened by the "Albanian reach".
In her book, Del Ponte says that those few and far-in-between investigations of the terrorist KLA were the hardest during her appointment as the ICTY chief prosecutor, that her researchers were confronted by the clans, vendettas and political pressures, and that "policemen from Bern and Brussels and all the way to Bronx" are well aware about the insurmountable difficulties when it comes to the attempts to investigate Albanian organized crime.
Recommended: At the heart of the Balkan chaos: the Albanian mafia, by Xavier Raufer, a leading French criminologist mentioned by Alexandre del Valle in a discussion about Kosovo province on French TV; Russian Documentary About Kosovo-Metohia, Part 1, YouTube (for parts 2-7 click on 'more' in the upper right handside box "About this video"); No US consideration of Serbian sacrifices, by Wes Johnson (New Europe)
Comments
I think I am going to throw up. You have done a service to Serbs to pointing out what’s is happening to Kosovo Serbs, Svetlana. I doubt many Serbs know of this harrowing truth. It boils my blood when Serbs say Kosovo is not important; they are basically saying those Serbs who have suffered in Kosovo are not important.
Posted by: Deucaon | March 15, 2008 05:17 AM
That's exactly how I felt when I read this excerpt from Del Ponte's book - it is beyond inhumane, it is beyond demonic. We have a very serious problem with influential people treating these Serbs as expendable, unimportant, as if they are not living, terrified, tortured human beings, but fallen tree leaves or something one doesn't even pay attention to. They are doing everything to make the world not learn about this unimaginable cruelty and swinishness, and to make Belgrade forget about these men and women and never demand immediate action to free the remaining Serbian slaves and find the whole truth about all the ones who perished.
We have no right to rest until every single missing Serb is accounted for, one way or the other, among the still living or the dead. We just can't, I don't see how we could. If there is still someone living in such hell, there is no one on earth that person can hope to ever find them, dead or alive, if the Serbs join the rest of the world which simply doesn't care. If we don't care, nobody else will.
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March 15, 2008 05:44 AM
Yes kurva del pontificate you know what has been happening to serbs in kosovo yet you did NOTHING!!!. talk about human rights the serbs in kosovo have non. but the shitpars have all the rights, because they know most amerikans are greedy and can be bought. Kosovo has been sold down the river by people like djinjic and tadic. coup? no way the leader of the armed forces is tadics bitch so forget about him. russia will not help with forces they got their pipeline. NO kosovo NO EU! simple the EU is not serbias friend and will never be. may god rid us of all who oppose us and all who are traitors to their own people.
СА ВЕРОМ У БОГА СЛОБОДА ИЛИ СМРТ
КОСОВО МЕТОХИЈА ЈЕ СРБИЈА
Posted by: BeliOraoSrbija | March 16, 2008 01:18 AM
Ok, I am Croatian, full blooded one.
But I will be fair here. Kosovo is motherland of Serbia. Their greatest dynasties have originated there. Also, I have to say that way it was recognized by political trip-over. There are old cultures that are integrated somwhere else and yet they do not recieve recognition. Scotland for example. But, history is dirty thing, anyone can throw mud and people talking on this issue, especially if they are westerners, are, let me put it simply - shallow minded. It is easy to say I am pro this or I am pro that, but it is hard to recognize that you are talking based on weak if any data at all.
I symapthyze with Serbian nation on this, I understand their pain and rage. It was not so long ago when they themselves tried to chop away large pieces of my country, I am sorry for your pain, but this is how I felt when you tried to do the same. I pray all will be ended peacefully. I am sorry to see this blog overblowing other stuff, and promoting anti-Croatianism
Do not chop this post or extract anything to change its meaning. If you have guts, post it as it is, if not, just delete it. Thanks
Posted by: Amber | March 16, 2008 05:47 AM
Few words instead of introduction:
Svetlana was unfortunately exposed to severe threats and harassment due to her work on this blog. The charges have been filed with the police, so she will no longer run the site. But there are plenty of us who are willing to continue her work, keeping in line with Svetlana's unique style and courageous pursuit of truth. Few of us have our passwords and access keys set up, more will join in time, but this time around we intend to run this space under the collective name. Therefore, stay put and buckle up, there's much more to follow.
Amber, while we can't agree with your equation of Krajina Serbs (who were a constitutive nation in Croat republic, and not a national minority, like Albanians in Serbia and elsewhere outside Albania), with Serbian Kosovo province, we do appreciate your support on this issue.
Serbs and Croats will probably never agree over the facts regarding the WWII and the civil wars that dismembered Yugoslavia in the 1990s. Where both nations are incredibly stupid is that they both allow to be pitted against each other from the outside. If you haven't had a chance to read Professor Terzic's interview about the reasons behind all this, which is to prevent any possibility of South Slavs ever being united, please do so, it is an eyeopener.
Some of us (full-bloodied Serbs) knew the torching of the embassies in Belgrade on Feb 21 was a setup when it was announced that Croat embassy was among those that were attacked. Why would Serbs attack a Croat embassy at the time? American is easy to figure, Slovenian, French...... those go without saying, but why a Croat one, when Croatia did not recognize the stillborn mafia entity?
Just follow the pattern and you will see that every now and then there is a need to play up this card, of getting Serbs and Croats at each other's throats again. The more desperate Washington is becoming to have countries in the region issue an illegal recognition, the more you will read about Croats attacking Serbs in Croatia and Serbian churches over there, and the more the Serbs in Serbia will be charging on Croat embassy or doing things that can enrage Croats. That Serbs and Croats never fail to bite these baits, and always react so predictably is downright idiotic.
Apart from that: not a thing against Croats in general here. Some of us have very good Croat friends and family members, but there are issues over which we will have to agree to disagree and that's probably forever.
Posted by: BBlog Staff | March 16, 2008 08:14 AM
Were these threats and harassment in the real world or over the internet?
Posted by: Deucaon | March 16, 2008 10:14 AM
Amber, thanks for your agenda-ridden "sympathy". But, have you thought this through? I'd argue that you actually understand Albanian separatists much better than Serbs for several reasons. E.g.:
1) Illegal declaration of independence against international law - just like Croatia
2) Not being punished for WW2 crimes - just like Croatia
3) Agim Ceku's complicity - just like Croatia
4) Armed and trained by Germany - just like Croatia
5) Claim of being a victim while main perpetrator in reality - just like Croatia
6) Celebrating Hitler as a savior - just like Croatia
List goes on and on…
P.S. Those guys showed you some guts by publishing your posting. Would you show them some decency in return and stop polluting this blog?
Posted by: BigFan | March 16, 2008 03:22 PM
You guys should publish separate article(s) detailing harassment of Svetlana - so that everybody knows.
Posted by: BigFan | March 16, 2008 03:44 PM